Sentence examples for a bridgehead from from inspiring English sources

In 1964 Sotheby's acquired Parke-Bernet, the largest American fine arts auction house, creating a bridgehead from which to launch its global expansion.

Clashes between Serb forces and the guerrillas have been particularly fierce in villages close to Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia, where NATO has been building a bridgehead from which a peacekeeping force could enter Kosovo (see article).

On 31 March 1945, the 100th Infantry Division crossed the Rhine and moved south in the wake of the 10th Armored Division and then east across the Neckar River, establishing and enlarging a bridgehead from 4 to 11 April.

As Mika Stahlberg, CTO at F-Secure, explains, "This feature is aimed at preventing IoT devices from becoming a bridgehead for bigger breaches against your network".

There they joined Polish and British paratroopers to secure a bridgehead for the advancing Strykers, which had come more than 500 miles (800 km) from their base in southern Germany to meet the enemy.

But whereas Vredestein has been a bridgehead for Apollo's products in Europe, Tata's cars have made few inroads there.Nor did JLR seem to need any advice from Tata on how to run its plants in Britain.

While this might be a modest contribution in the wider context, it offers a bridgehead of principle from which progress can be made.

"In early August, I was driving four wounded men back from a bridgehead which the 59 division had thrown over the river Orne, near Thury Harcourt.

In early November the Russians established a bridgehead over the Danube from Apatin (in modern-day Serbia).

In order to realize his dreams, he would need a bridgehead in the Balkans from where he could march to Constantinople.

For a short time Urartu thus had a bridgehead west of the Euphrates from Malatya to Halfeti (ancient Halpa) in Commagene, and its empire reached to within 20 miles (32 km) of Aleppo in northern Syria.